RICEVIMENTO for Spec 1/12/9 & 9.12.9

Since 8th December is a public holiday, and since we are nearing the end of our first semester and exams are in the offing, there will be a correction session after the lesson on Wednesday 9th at 12.00 in room 116 of the Vetreria.

There will be no ricevimento in the Vetreria on Tuesday 1st December after the course (@ 16.00). It will be after the course on Wednesday 2nd December, instead (@ 12.00).

Three tabloid headlines...

...for you to get your teeth into.

Christmas Cracker Jokes

(and if you don't know what a Christmas cracker is, google it)
This image is from the Daily Mail newspaper: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230708/Cracker-gags-PC-brigade-happy.html

Verifica II lingua & cambiamenti nell'orario

1) La verifica per i frequentanti del corso II anno lingua avrà luogo alle 14.30 del 18.11.09 in aula VI. Potrete portare un vocabolario (pulito - senza note aggiunte) a testa. Non potrete usare il vocabolario di un altro studente.

2) III anno lettorato: l'orario non cambierà (aule, si). Sarà martedì 08.30-10-30 in aula III e giovedì 10.30-12.30 in aula VIII.

3) RICEVIMENTO: nessun cambio, martedì 17.00-16.00 in stanza 116 Vetreria Sciarra, giovedì 13.00-15.00 Villa Mirafiori.

Language & Culture: Italian Big Brother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aG3Sg9Hrk0

Do watch this for an idea of some of the educational problems of today. I emphasise that similar ignorance is common in the UK.

for II year LINGUA and others interested

This article is from the current copy of the Telegraph, which is a right-wing, middle class (borghese, di destra), British broadsheet newspaper. Please study the language and how it influences the point of view of the reader.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6473233/Italian-paparazzo-Fabrizio-Corona-charged-over-blackmail-photos.html

Italian paparazzo Fabrizio Corona charged over blackmail photos
It is a tangled tale of sex, greed, ambition and blackmail in Silvio Berlusconi's celebrity-obsessed Italy.
By Nick Squires in Rome
Published: 6:00PM GMT 31 Oct 2009